Anson's Reading

By the middle of the 1800's, it was thought the the Earth was at least a couple million years old. Charles Darwin tried to calculate how old the Earth was, but eventually, it was proven wrong. In 1824, WIlliam Kelvin was born. He was an extremely smart person who began university at the age of 12 at Glasgow University. He later went to Cambridge. By 1907, he had written around 661 papers, most of the papers about mathematics. In addition to these papers, he contributed to the science of thermodynamics, refridgeration, and made the sending of telegrams possible. in 1862, Kelvin predicted that the Earth was 98 million years old by using electromagnetism. Like Darwin, his prediction was wrong.